Darko Milicic explains what really happened
Our basketball journey ended pretty sudden, but not completely unexpected this year, we had a not-so-good team and maybe even more important, Moka Slavnic – good player, but terrible as a coach. As for the players, well, it seems that they have some individual qualities but unfortunately they suck as a team, especially our two key players, Gurovic and, more explicitly, Darko Milicic:
Translation
Journalist: What happened, your impression of the game?
DM: These three big [ expletive deleted ], these three [ expletive deleted ] of judges took the game from us, that’s what happened. These [ expletive deleted ], these three [ expletive deleted ], they think they are [ expletive deleted ], I’ll come over and [ expletive deleted ] their mothers in [ expletive deleted ], all three of them. That’s all i have to say. [ expletive deleted ] all three of them. [ expletive deleted ] his Italian pompeus mother in [ expletive deleted ], brother. That’s all I have to say.
Journalist: Darko, calm down, tell us your impressions…
DM: [ expletive deleted ], they can suck my [ expletive deleted ], you can put that in the papers, brother. All three of them, I don’t give a [ expletive deleted ] who they are. This is all I have to say.
Some moron from the background: You guys fought very well!
DM: The hell we did, [ expletive deleted ], he doesn’t blow the whistle, he [ expletive deleted ] his pants. I’m gonna [ expletive deleted ] his mom in the mouth. If he has a daughter, I’m gonna [ expletive deleted ] her too. We fought, I died, I’m gonna go to the medics now, and they stole the game from us like [ expletive deleted ].
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So as you can see from this short but thorough statement, it was all judges’ fault really. Plus the fact that they had to shorten the hymn at the introduction ceremony from 86 seconds to 75, that had to have some influence on our players. Now give us our gold medal and maybe we’ll think about forgiving you!
Seriously now, the video can serve as a warning – see what happens when you give a whole lotta money to a kid and dispose him of any education whatsoever. Darko would fit perfectly in 90’s Serbia, playing in his Air-max nike’s.
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Honestly, who gives a flying fadoo about Milicic.
Since the Serbian mainstream print and electronic media has many times in the past shown itself to be a collection of low-brow bottomfeeding imbeciles looking for a sensation, this guy’s emotional outburst is now forced on us from every source imaginable because they know it will boost readership and ratings. That’s the real disgrace here – not the fact that an uneducated 22-year-old yob swore like sailor in a heat of the moment after getting robbed on the basketaball court, but the fact Serbian mainstream media has sunk so low that it doesn’t have a single outlet anymore that isn’t hellbent on pandering to the lowest denominator.
I couldn’t believe my eyes and ears when I saw and heard the whole tirade as part of a “news” item on B92 site. The text itself was basically a brainless, phoned-in op-ed piece (needless to say unsigned) masked as “news”, and it of course touched on B92’s favourite topics – the 1990s, Milosevic, wars, and similar crap all of these Soros-donated zombies keep regurgitating over the last 7 years. It also lamented the fact such filth is being heard by “our children” or some such lame general phrase – while at the same time providing a huge audience to such language or, better say, courting new audience with such language.
How pathetic and hypocritical!
In that sense your blog post on Milicic isn’t much better. Lazy, lame, and half-witted. Milicic at least has an out – he’s a dumb basketball player. What’s your excuse?
Soros made me do it.
Well…I think you’re joking, Victor, but it’s not so far fetched, is it? And from your own fingertips to the screen.
George Soros has a hell of lot to do with the attitudes you and those like you hold, and with the mentality among a certain stratum of Serbian society. His money has had its impact and his influence is broad. Tragically, there are plenty of that psychopath’s stooges around. If Soros weren’t so wealthy after nearly breaking the Bank of Britain and assisting the muslim takeover of Malaysia, he might be where he belongs — in a looney bin, wearing a straitjacket.
As for Milicic, there a ignoramuses and cretins in every society. Miha is right that spreading his spew around is the fault of the news agencies. They always go for the lowest common denominator interest.
To tell you the thruth, I would’t even have heard of Soros if there wasn’t people who oppose his views to remind me that he even exists. So i doubt that he has any influence on myself personally.
As for Miličić and media, it’s a double bladed sword. If you publish it, you can be accused of sensationalism. If you don’t publish it, than he gets away with it, because nobody talks about it at all and all is well. I went with the first risk.
And the benefits of talking about Milicic are what, for instance?
As for Soros, his influence is insipid. You only have to back those directly supported by him, like Natasa Kandic for one example, to be influenced by his sick philosophy.
Well, I preffer to see over here some highlights from the great games Novak Djokovic played at the US Open and the greatness he showed at the match against Federer, even though he lost, rather than watching this ape-like looser Milicic.
Unfortunately, I didn’t follow Nole’s matches (hey, he plays one match for 5 hours, I don’t have that much time!) so I could only talk about what I have read about the matches. I didn’t follow basketball either, but this Milicic video has nothing to do with the games we played though.
Jankovic’s, Ivanovic’s and Djokovic’s success is without the doubt the best thing that happened to Serbian sport in a long time, that’s for sure.
Well I’ll let Sasa Djordjevic say his bit:
‘What I watched on the internet, what Darko Milicic stated about judges, was seen by half a million people on ESPN, Italian TV and Spanish TV. That was a big mistake from one player who must be sanctioned the very same moment….
Let him pay a fine and he will get an even bigger fine from the NBA and his own club. From our team he must feel the fine for what he did and to learn that when he wears the national colours of Serbia he is representing his country. That is (was) unacceptable behaviour.’
I think it is not right to attack the Serbian media specifically for this as it was carried throughout basketball playing countries as news. And any other country would have reported on their player behaving in such a way rest assured. The point concerning young men and how the way they behave stands, but you know what, I dont remember past Yugoslav, Serbian team members behaving publically in such a way. Why were they all (or mostly) able to behave in the proper manner and now can not? Are young men more immature today than in previous years??? This guy is in the NBA!
No, for me this is a matter of discipline. Putting aside the fact that Moka is a good guy and a great former basketball player (and a bad coach) you can tell by his statements to the media what kind of ship he runs – and it isnt tight.
Moka seemed to think that running the basketball team was like being in a democracy. Every decision he made he ‘consulted the senior players’. His desire to be one of the lads (ok not ‘desire’, he is one of the lads) meant that his authority was not respected nor did he ever try to excercise his authority over the players – leading the players to believe they could behave how they wanted.
Just before Milcic was threatening darkly he listened to a tirade from Moka claiming that we were completely robbed and so on. In Milicic’s mind this completely justified the way he felt and the way the team felt and gave him greater encouragement to do his outburst. Giving further credance to my argument (Mokas inability to control or condoning lack of discipline) was the Labovic incident that happened previously – Labovic threw a punch at another player during a game. Moka did nothing about this and selected him the following game without sanction. Dont get me wrong some of the time its solid psychology not to reprimand a player in public but to shout his ears off in private. It inspires loyalty in the team. But I’m confident that Moka doesnt do this. He just forgets about it in public and private.
Serbian / Yugoslav basketball was never known for this type of behaviour. It was known for skill, commitment and yes discipline. This current team has a little of the first, more of the second but none of the third.
I cant pretend to be a neutral bystander on this issue – my emotions run pretty high on this matter as I love basketball and to see Serbian success. I do not see that happeneing with Moka as coach. Where are all those great coaches we have and where are all those great recently retired players we have? The guy is out there somewhere and we need him above all to guide our brilliant young players who can be world beaters again.
“I think it is not right to attack the Serbian media specifically for this as it was carried throughout basketball playing countries as news. And any other country would have reported on their player behaving in such a way rest assured. The point concerning young men and how the way they behave stands, but you know what, I dont remember past Yugoslav, Serbian team members behaving publically in such a way. Why were they all (or mostly) able to behave in the proper manner and now can not? Are young men more immature today than in previous years??? This guy is in the NBA!”
You have got to be kidding me.
Back in his day every other word out of Paspalj’s mouth was a profanity. Danilovic was always a cranky, moody SOB even in his younger days (do you think he suddenly started beating up referees in 2007 as a 30-something-year-old club president just like that). Djordjevic and Divac were no strangers to all kinds of swearing either as well as various other “scandalous” beahviour. It’s just that there was nobody to report on their collective indiscretions. Therefore, I find it very hypocritical to see them now on TV moralizing and pretending to be outraged by Milicic like a bunch of old betties.
The only difference between then and now is that back in the “golden days” you had 2-3 TV channels and 4-5 daily papers that functioned with no regard to competition because they were all funded by the state. Now, we have endless TV outlets, and countless daily papers – and they all have to compete in order to survive. The best way to get viewers, readers, and listeners is to bombard them with sensational coverage, screaming headlines, and in-your-face profanity. Even on that Milicic video you can hear reporters egging him on. It’s like: “C’mon Darko, be a stupid uneducated monkey we now you are, and make some money for us”. They’re standing there like a pack of hungry hyenas goading him on.
As for Milicic’s tirade being “news”. I guess it is news, fine, but I didn’t see any main-strem foreign outlet run, or translate verbatim, the original, unedited video like B92 did. That sort of hungry sensation-at-all-cost approach can only be seen in Serbian main stream media (and then on top of that, they have the audacity to moralize about the “degradation of values during the 1990s”, I mean gimme a break, you bunch of frauds). You can easily describe what Milicic said through more acceptable euphemisms without actually re-playing his entire outburst verbatim.
Swearing ‘on court’ or before or post press conference is commonplace yes but a lengthy tirade containing in depth profanity and threats in front of the world’s media is not.
Milicic made it news.
Of course his outburst was news and of course it was shown in other countries. That is not the kind of coverage Serbia needs. I dont even know why we are discussing the media here. I find this kind of behaviour unacceptible, even without recourse to the fact that ‘we woz robbed’
Well as if not to be outdone Croatia have their own foul mouthed basketball star in similar circumstances – after a defeat.
The target of his verbal abuse in this case wasnt the referee his mother, daughter and whatever, rather the media who he told to ‘suck his c..k’ etc etc
...However, unlike Milicic (presumably after speaking to the Croatian coach) he returned 10 minutes later to apologise.
Sorry, the player in question is Niksa Prkacin (if anybody wants to search for it on the net).